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NewsReal reason for Roger Green’s resignationIn an exclusive sit-down interview early Thursday, popular Assemblyman Roger Green, 57th assembly district (AD), told the Daily Challenge a debt of $90 for cookies and gas cost him $2,000 in fines, 3-years probation, loss of his salary and, ultimately, his seat in the State Assembly. more> Electronic bracelets to track deporteesStarting next year, future deportees will have to wear electronic bracelets around their ankles to facilitate tracking them. This new strategy, part of Operation Endgame, has provoked protests among immigration attorneys. more> Feds have their eye on Chinatown’s traditional medicine practitionersA recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation search of Chinatown’s medicine stores found numerous establishments selling illegal products containing tiger and rhinoceros parts. Can traditional medicine stand up to the test? more> Koreans traveling home for health care and plastic surgeryWith health care costs so high in the United States, many prefer to have basic care like dental work done in Korea. Increasingly, they are also seeking luxury treatments there, like plastic surgery to reshape the eyes or nose. more> Special FocusVoter mobilization |
EditorialsWhy Bush must go: Armenians should wake up and smell the Turkish coffeeThe Republicans have never been the friends of minorities. As a minority – and a persecuted one at that – it is remarkable that Armenians continue in large numbers to support the Republican Party. This is obviously the knee-jerk reaction of a once-poor immigrant community that is growing wealthier with each passing generation through hard work and education. more> Is Eliot Spitzer too busy, or is he deaf?Thousands of Latino workers who are affiliated with Local 32BJ sent the attorney general a letter charging two building maintenance companies of nepotism and discrimination. For a reply, they received a form letter. Other complaints have also gone unheard. more> Briefs |
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CUNY new home for Voices and Ippies Awards
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is proud to be the new home for Voices That Must Be Heard. Over the next few months, we will be reaching out to community and ethnic journalists to get their feedback on Voices, as we develop our plans for expanding the publication's content and audience. Stay tuned!
ReportNYCMA releases Education Fellowship 2010 anthology
NYCMANYCMA Ethnic Media Student Internship Program
Interns and director of Baruch College H.S. journalism program Katina Paron at their orientation meeting. - Photo by Jehangir Khattak.
Check out student interns' stories
NYCMA is thrilled to announce the start of our summer internship program. We are able to place high school seniors with a passion for journalism in the real world of pad and pen. Students are given a rare insight and understanding into the power and function of New York's community media and the ability to hone writing skills in preparation for a career in journalism. This program is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.
